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The social brain hypothesis suggests that our intelligence evolved to manage our complex social lives.
Our minds are not designed to cope with the anonymity of modern urban life.
Religion is the price we pay for having a large brain.
We are the product of our evolutionary past.
Language evolved to allow us to gossip.
The magic number 150 suggests that the size of our social networks is limited by the size of our brains.
The gift of language is the single human trait that marks us all genetically, setting us apart from the rest of life.
The decline of violence may be the most significant and least-appreciated development in the history of our species.
We are all cut from the same genetic cloth, and that cloth was woven in Africa.
Language is not a cultural artifact that we learn the way we learn to tell time or how the federal government works. Instead, it is a distinct piece of the biological makeup of our brains.
The mind is a system of organs of computation, designed by natural selection to solve the kinds of problems our ancestors faced in their foraging way of life.
We are all descendants of successful ancestors; failure left no progeny.
Our modern skulls house a Stone Age mind.
The human mind is a set of information-processing machines that were designed by natural selection to solve adaptive problems faced by our hunter-gatherer ancestors.
Natural selection has shaped our minds as well as our bodies.
"The major threats to survival that our ancestors faced - predators, starvation, disease - left their mark on our fears and anxieties."
"We are all descendants of successful maters, not unsuccessful ones, and this has shaped our mating psychology in profound ways."
"Men and women differ in their desires for short-term mating because the reproductive benefits and costs differed for our ancestors."
"The human mind is a set of information-processing machines that were designed by natural selection to solve adaptive problems faced by our hunter-gatherer ancestors."
A great novel is one that makes us see the world with new eyes.